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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, 



JULY 94, 1863, 



UPON THE EESOLUTIOx\S OF THE MERRIMACK €OUNTY CONFERENCE 

OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES, IN REFERENCE TO THE 

PRESIDENT OF SAID COLLEGE, PASSED AT THEIR 

SESSION, JUNE 23 AND 24, 1863. 



CONCORD : 

PKINTED BY McEAELAND & JEXKS 

1863. 



TKUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. 



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Eev. NATHAN LOED, d. d., President, 
His Excellency, JOSEPH A. GILMOEE,* 

Ex Officio, 
Eev. ZEDEKIAH S. BAESTOW, d. d., 

LYNDON A. MAESH, Esq., 
Hon. GEOEGE W. NESMITH, 
Eev. NATHANIEL BOUTON, d. d., 
Eev. SAMUEL DELANO, 
Hon. IEA A. EASTMAN, ll. d., 
Hon. AMOS TUCK, 
Hon. ANTHONY COLBY,* 
Hon. JOHN W. NOYES, 
Hon. JOHN W. SANBOEN, 
Hon. OLIYEE PILLSBUEY, 
Hon. CHAELES H. EASTMAN 
Hon. LEVI PAEKEE, 
Hon. ONSLOW STEAENS, 

President of the Senate. 
Hon. WILLIAM E. CHANDLEE, 
Speaker of the House of Bepresentatives, 
Hon. SAMUEL D. BELL, 
Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, 



Hanover. 



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Concord. 

Keene. 

Woodstock, Vt. 

Franklin. 

Concord. 

Strafford, Vt. 

Concord. 

Exeter. 

New-London. 

Chester. 

Wakefield. 

Henniker. 

Claremont 

Lisbon. 

Concord. 

Concord. 

Manchester. 



VISITORS OF THE CHANDLER SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL. 

JOHN JAMES DIXWELL, Esq., a. m., Boston, Mass. 

EEANCIS BEOWN HAYES, Esq., a. m., Boston, Mass. 



Hon. DANIEL BLAISDELL, Treasurer, Hanover. 



* Messrs. Gilmoke and Colby were absent from the meetings of the 
Board, July, 1863. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



At a meetina; of the Trustees of Dartmouth Col- 
lege, held at Hanover on the 23d day of July, 1863, 
the following resolutions of the Merrimack County 
Conference of Congregational Churches, unanimously 
adopted at their session on the 23d and 24th of June, 
1863, were brought before the Board for their con- 
sideration : — 

Hesolved, That the people of E"ew-I-Iampshire have the 
strongest desire for the prosperit}^ of Dartmouth College, 
and that they rejoice in the wide influence this noble 
institution has exerted in the cause of education and 
religion. 

Resolved, That we cherish a sincere regard for its vener- 
able President — for the rare qualifications he possesses 
for the high ofiice he has so long and so ably filled ; but 
that we deeply regret that its welfare is greatly imperiled 
by the existence of a popular prejudice against it, arising 
from the publication and use of some of his peculiar 
views touching public afiPairs, thereby, as we believe, tend- 
ing to embarrass our Covernment in its present fearful 
struggle, and to encourage and strengthen the resistance 
of its enemies in arms. 

Besolved, That, in our opinion, it is the duty of the 
Trustees of the College to seriously inquire whether its 
interests do not demand a change in its Presidency, and 
to act according to their best judgment in the premises. 



On motion that a Committee be appointed to report 
what action^ if any, onght to be taken thereon, Hon. 
Amos Tuck, Eev. Nathaniel Bouton, d. d., and Hon. Ira 
A. Eastman were appointed such Committee. 

On the 24th of July instant, said Committee made 
the following Keport, which was accepted and adopted 
by the Trustees : — 

The Committee, to whom was referred the resolu- 
tions of the Merrimack County Conference, respecting 
Dartmouth College, make the following 

REPORT: . 

The Committee have taken into most respectful 
consideration the action of the Conference, and the 
sentiment pervading the Churches, of which the reso- 
lutions of the Conference are the expression. We do 
not forget, but thankfully avow the debt of gratitude 
which has rested upon the College^ throughout its 
history, to the Churches of New-England, and to the 
pious teachings and generous patronage of those in- 
cluded within their embrace. We are fully aware of 
the obligations of science and literature, in all past 
time, to the clerical profession; that the countenance 
and support of the Clergy and the Churches have ever 
been the chief reliance of this College, and that we 
can hope for little prosperity or usefulness to the In- 
stitution in future, without meriting the confidence 
bestowed upon it in the past. We deplore the present 



condition of the College, in respect to the sentiments 
entertained toward it, as expressed in said resolutions, 
and we profess our readiness to do any act which our 
intimate knowledge of its affairs and circumstances 
enable us to judge practicable and beneficial. Neither 
the Trustees nor the Faculty coincide with the Presi- 
dent of the College in the views which he has pub- 
lished touching slavery and the war, and it has been 
their hope that the College would not be adjudged a 
partisan institution by reason of such publications. It 
has been our purpose that no act of ours should con- 
tribute to such an impression upon the public mind, 
inviting, as we do, all classes of our fellow-citizens 
to contribute to its support, and to partake of its 
privileges. 

It would be impracticable, if it were wise, to em- 
body in this report all the reasons which induce us to 
propose no action by which the removal of the Presi- 
dent from the head of the institution should be under- 
taken by the Trustees, and we bespeak with confidence 
the favorable judgment that we act discreetly, from 
the members of the Conference who have expressed 
in their resolutions their generous appreciation of the 
eminent ability and qualifications of the President for 
the position which he occupies. 

Yet the Committee do not fail to see that the pres- 
ent crisis in the country is no ordinary conflict between 
opposing parties, but is a struggle between the Gov- 



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ernment on one side and its enemies on the other, and 
that in it are involved vital issues, not only respecting 
science and learning, virtue and religion, but also 
respecting all the social and civil blessings growing 
out of free institutions. 

The Committee recommend that the Kesolutions of 
the Merrimack County Conference, this Report and 
the accompanying Resolutions, be published in pam- 
phlet form, and that the Treasurer be directed to cause 
the same to be circulated among the members of said 
Conference, and other persons, according to his dis- 
cretion. AMOS TUCK, 

N. BOUTON. 

Hanover, July 24, 1863. 

The Trustees of Dartmouth College, impressed with 
the magnitude of the crisis now existing in public 
affairs, and with the vital consequences which the issue 
of current events will bring to the nation and the 
world ; and considering that it is the duty of literary 
institutions and the men who control them to stand 
in no doubtful position when the Government of the 
country struggles for existence, inscribe upon their 
records, and promulgate the following resolutions : 

Firsts We recognize and acknowledge with grate- 
ful pride the heroic sacrifices and valiant deeds of 
many of the sons of Dartmouth, in their endeavors 
to defend and sustain the Government against the 




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present wicked and remorseless rebellion; and we 
announce to the living, now on the battle-field, to the 
sick and the maimed in the hospitals and among their 
friends, and to the relatives of such of them as have 
fallen in defense of their country, that Dartmouth 
College rejoices to do them honor, and will inscribe 
their names and their brave deeds upon her most 
enduring records. 

Second^ We commend the cause of our beloved 
country to all the Alumni of this Institution ; and we 
invoke from them, and pledge our own most efficient 
and cordial support, and that of Dartmouth College, to 
the Government, which is the only power by which the 
rebellion can be subdued. We hail with joy, and with 
grateful acknowledgements to the God of our fathers, 
the cheering hope that the dark cloud which has here- 
tofore obscured the vision and depressed the hearts of 
patriots and statesmen, in all attempts to scan the 
future, may in time disappear entirely from our hori- 
zon, and that American slavery, with all its sin and 
shame, and the alienations, jealousies and hostilities 
between the people of different sections, of which it 
has been the fruitful source, may find its merited 
doom in consequence of the war which it has evoked. 

Thirds The Trustees bespeak for the College in the 
future the same cordial support and patronage of the 
Clergy and the Churches of New-England, as well as 
other friends of sound learning, which they have 



given to it in time past, reminding them of the obli- 
gations which the cause of education, science and 
rehgion seem to lay upon them, to stand by this 
venerable Institution, in evil report and in good re- 
port, in view of its past history and great service to 
the church and state, entertaining an abiding faith 
that it will triumph over all obstacles, and go down to 
posterity with its powers of usefulness unimpaired. 



[After the vote had been taken by the Board of Trus- 
tees, adopting the foregoing Report and Eesolutions, Dr. 
Lord resigned his position, both as President, and one 
of the Trustees of the College.] 






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